Resources- Specific Diagnosis Card Catalog- Thyroid Disorders

Who to Contact

Thyroid Foundation of America
410 Stuart St.
Boston, Massachusetts, 02116
800-832-8321 (toll-free)
617-534-1515 (fax)
E-mail: info@allthyroid.org
Web: http://www.allthyroid.org

The Thyroid Foundation of America has been informing and supporting thyroid patients for 17 years. Working with physicians, we help individuals understand thyroid illness, receive appropriate therapy, recover, and stay well. Through our web site, emails, newsletters, and access to our staff through our free telephone service at 1-800-832-8321, we can be your lifelong thyroid resource. We will keep you up-to-date about new research findings, ongoing clinical research projects, new thyroid books, and other patient and physician thyroid organizations. We will also keep you informed about thyroid-related disorders that may affect you and your family.

American Foundation of Thyroid Patients
4322 Douglas Ave.
Midland, Texas, 79703
432-694-9966 (phone)
775-406-0630 (fax)
E-mail: thyroid@flash.net
Web: www.thyroidfoundation.org

The American Foundation of Thyroid Patients was founded in 1993 and is an IRS 501c3 non-profit organization. Volunteers, many of whom are thyroid patients themselves who understand and embrace the need to assist fellow thyroid patients, staff the Foundation. The Foundation's financial support is overwhelmingly thyroid patients at large. This gives our organization the ability to speak "freely" to our audience, providing easy-to-understand, practical and "untainted" information.

As patients, we have the dubious ability to relate well to others in the same situation. We work to assist and guide patients to not only regain their quality of life but also offer solutions for lifetime management of this chronic disorder. Ultimately, it is best to reach patients before their health situation becomes critical. Timing is everything. Long undiagnosed thyroid disease can be more difficult and require more extensive and expensive methods of treatment. Recovery can be likened to sliding down a slippery hill. The further down you slide, the longer it takes to reach the top again.

The Foundation medical information is guided by a diverse group of specialty physicians who treat thyroid patients and have embraced our mission to assist persons with thyroid disease. Members of this group are on staff at large university teaching hospitals across America.

The primary purpose of the Foundation is education. We reach this goal by various means of written, audio and video formats. Educational seminars are routinely conducted. Nationwide physician referrals for diagnosis and treatment are available.

Where to Go Chat with Others

The Thyroid Support Group
The Thyroid Support Group is for those who have, or suspect they have, thyroid disease as well family members and friends that wish to learn more about thyroid disorders. We have suggestions for those with insurance and a regular doctor and for those without.

Thyroid Connection
This is a friendly place to discuss thyroid disease, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, alternative therapies and treatments, alternative thyroid drugs, and more.

Thyroid
Mailing list discusses all types of thyroid conditions. Family and friends of those with thyroid disease are welcome. The Thyroid discussion includes, but is not limited to, these conditions: Basedow's disease, Flajani's disease, goiter, Grave's disease, Hashimoto's disease, hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, myxedema, Parry's disease, struma, thyroiditis, thyroid nodules, and Wilson's syndrome.

Learn More About It

Thyroid Disorders

Thyroid Disorders & Treatments

Frequently Asked Questions on Graves' Disease & Hyperthyroidism

What is the thyroid and why should I worry about it?

Links

Thyroid Foundation of America Web Site

The American Thyroid Association

Thyroid Info

The American Foundation of Thyroid Patients

Human Biological Database Interchange (HBDI)